Broadway Urges FCC To Reconsider Rules That Could Silence Live Theatre

Actors wearing wireless microphones transmitting on frequencies that are soon to be compromised by consumer devices. Without publishing proposed rules and allowing public discourse, the FCC, pressured by leading technology firms, will vote on this issue on November 4, 2008: Election Day. The FCC’s own engineers’ report demonstrates that the technology in place to prevent interference is ineffective. The Broadway League has asked the FCC to refrain from voting to approve new devices that will ...